LOS ANGELES - French defendants in the Credit Lyonnais scandal claimed victory late Wednesday after a federal judge approved a...

LOS ANGELES - It was probably only a matter of time until someone filed a lawsuit in U.S. court over the Asian tsunami disaste...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - So Fez Inc. purchased a 5,614-square-foot industrial building at 8580 Avenida de la Fuente from South ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By Arthur Cook - On Dec. 13, 2004, the Supreme Court filed its decision in Cooper Industrie...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - If one were to rank state government institutions on the basis of their "transparency" - how ...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - Being a parent in our fast-paced and complex society isn't easy. We find ourselves ra...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for Milton Hadley, a longtime Baldwin Park attorney. Hadley, who helped put his...

LOS ANGELES - Services for Los Angeles Superior Court Judge C. Robert Simpson will take place Saturday in La Habra. Simpson, ...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Friday for retired Los Angeles trial lawyer Richard Brown Coyle. Coyle, a longtime civ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed 11 new judges Wednesday to trial courts in Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angele...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marc Fagel, a veteran attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, will head the San Francisco office's...

Daily Journal Web Exclusive - SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court granted review Wednesday in a case in which underag...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Trial lawyers these days must feel like they're living in a house of horrors. Behind every door, th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The "C" word is so controversial that the local plaintiffs lawyers who wrangled more than a billion dollars wo...

SAN BERNARDINO - Gerald Farber, a longtime chief deputy public defender for the county, has been tapped to fill the office's t...

LOS ANGELES - You may never have purchased that bastion of textbook journalism, The National Enquirer, but standing in line at...

LOS ANGELES - State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has reached a settlement "in principle" with French bank Credit Lyon...

SACRAMENTO - First Amendment advocates, lobbyists and others in recent weeks have begun openly challenging the California judi...

INDUSTRIAL CHULA VISTA - Sweetwater Union High School District purchased the 389,000-square-foot Chula Vista Commerce Center a...

Focus Column - Litigation - By James W. Denison - Picture this: You've just inherited a case from some other counsel, and you ...

Forum Column - By Deborah Wald - On Jan. 1, the California Domestic Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003 went into effect. ...

FULLERTON - Western State University College of Law has received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association,...

LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday blocked a judge from personally determining the value of priest sex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental organizations moved Tuesday to block plans to increase pumping from the state's two major water ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Leaders of the American Bar Association have recommended that juries in civil cases have 12 members and vote...

LOS ANGELES - Urging the audience to help fulfill his goal of providing equal access to justice to all Californians, state Chi...

Each winter, 20 bald eagles set up house in the forest bordering Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains northeast of Lo...

SAN FRANCISCO - A chance meeting with a Nigerian TV sitcom creator years ago launched San Francisco lawyer Cindy Cohn on an un...

LOS ANGELES - The deadly Los Angeles Metrolink derailment in January was staged deliberately by Juan Manuel Alvarez to get his...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday to re-examine whether a capital defendant can blame his ...